Download e-book for iPad: A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London by David Thomas

By David Thomas

ISBN-10: 1473825547

ISBN-13: 9781473825543

A clean and vibrant examine Shakespeare’s London released at the four-hundredth anniversary of the playwright’s demise. Readers can discover the streets of Shakespeare’s London and notice the points of interest he observed, whereas studying how humans ate, drank, misbehaved and had a good time.

You will become aware of what it used to be wish to be a vacationer within the 16th century from the voices of people that got here to London in the course of Shakespeare’s day. you are going to shuttle with them to the most important vacationer points of interest and should find out how to get approximately, the place to stick and what to devour and drink. you'll stopover at the royal palaces, London’s recognized gardens, the Tower of London and outdated St Paul’s Cathedral. you will find the excitement of London’s theatres, the activities humans performed and the procuring they loved. As now, London was once well-known as a purchasing vacation spot. yet pay attention, London is filled with those who will choose your wallet or trick you from your cash and also you are always in danger from the plague or maybe the polluted water offer.

Most of the London Shakespeare knew has been destroyed via hearth, warfare and builders, yet a shocking variety of structures and areas which he knew nonetheless live on. The e-book comprises guided excursions which exhibit you to pattern the ambience and spot the attractions which Tudor travelers enjoyed.

This identify will attract Shakespeare fans, social historical past enthusiasts, fiction and drama enthusiasts, scholars and a person with an curiosity during this interesting period of London’s heritage.

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